We discussed Javier Báez recently, but he isn’t the only the long-term Detroit Tigers player in real need of a reversal of fortune. Matt Manning will mark his ninth year in the organization this July. Things haven’t been trending in the right direction for him, and the club has a lot of talented young pitchers ahead on the depth chart.
After a pretty successful minor league career where he was regularly in the top group of pitching prospects in the game as he approached the major leagues, Manning debuted back in 2021. He was reasonably effective in part-time duty over the next few seasons, but struggled mightily to develop his stuff beyond the fastball and he dealt with several minor injuries along the way.